Conference Chairman
| Prof. Sotirios K. Goudos IEEE Senior Member, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Sotirios K. Goudos received the B.Sc. degree in Physics in 1991 and the M.Sc. of Postgraduate Studies in Electronics in 1994 both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2001, he received the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in 2005 the Master in Information Systems from the University of Macedonia, Greece. In 2011, he obtained the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He joined the Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2013, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include antenna and microwave structures design, evolutionary algorithms, wireless communications, machine learning, and semantic web technologies. Prof. Goudos is the director of the ELEDIA@AUTH lab member of the ELEDIA Research Center Network. He was honoured as an IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Prof. Goudos is currently serving as Chapter/AG coordinator for IEEE Greece Section. He has been elected IEEE Greece Section Secretary in 2022 and IEEE Greece Section Vice-Chair for 2023-2024. |
 | Prof. Valentina E. Balas IEEE Senior Member, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania Valentina E. Balas received the Ph.D. degree in applied electronics and telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. She is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Automatics and Applied Software, Faculty of Engineering, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. She is also the Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Centre, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. She is an author of more than 250 research articles in refereed journals and international conferences. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling, and simulation. She is a member of EUSFLAT, SIAM, and a member of TC-Fuzzy Systems (IEEE CIS), a member of TC-Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS), a member in TC-Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS). From 2005 to 2016, she served as the General Chair for the International Workshop Soft Computing and Applications (SOFA), in seven editions, held at Romania and Hungary. She participated in many international conferences as an Organizer, the Honorary Chair, the Session Chair, and a member of steering, advisory or international program committees. She was the past Vice-President (Awards) of IFSA International Fuzzy Systems Association Council, from 2013 to 2015, and is currently a Joint Secretary of the Governing Council of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM). She is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), a member of Editorial Board 12 IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, September 2019, a member of several national and international journals, and is an evaluator expert for national, international projects, and Ph.D. thesis. |
Publication Chair
| Prof. Tai Fei IEEE Senior Member, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany Tai Fei (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in telecommunication engineering from Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China, in 2005, and the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering and information technology from Darmstadt University of Technology (TUD), Darmstadt, Germany, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. From 2009 to 2012, he was a Research Associate with the Institute of Water-Acoustics, Sonar-Engineering and Signal-Theory, Hochschule Bremen, Bremen, Germany, in collaboration with the Signal Processing Group with TUD, Darmstadt, Germany, where his research interest was the detection and classification of underwater mines in sonar imagery. From 2013 to 2014, he was a Research Associate with the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. Since 2014, has been a Development Engineer with HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA, Lippstadt, Germany, where he is mainly responsible for the development of reliable signal processing algorithms for automotive radar systems. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 scientific and industrial publications. Since 2023, Dr. Fei is an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of IEEE Sensors Journal. He was a voluntary reviewer of more than 300 publications journals and conferences, such as IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letter, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing and IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory. As co-chair, he chaired the special session Advanced Systems and Algorithms for mmWave Radars at the IEEE Radar Conference 2023, San Antonio, Texas, USA.(Based on document published on 2 August 2023). |
Program Committee Chair
| Prof. Abid Yahya IEEE Senior Member, Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Botswana Prof. Abid Yahya has a bachelor's degree in Electrical & Electronics, a PhD, and a Master's in Wireless and Mobile Systems. He has published over 145 articles in prestigious journals, conferences, and book chapters. He has released five books within the last few years: Clustering Techniques for Image Segmentation (Springer, 2022), Emerging Technologies in Agriculture, Livestock, and Climate (Springer, 2020), Mobile WiMAX Systems: Performance Analysis of Fractional Frequency Reuse (CRC Press | Taylor & Francis, 2019), Steganography Techniques for Digital Images and LTE-A Cellular Networks: Multi-Hop Relay for Coverage, Capacity, and Performance Enhancement (Springer International Publishing respectively in July 2018 and January 2017). These works are studied in universities across the nation and abroad. He has also received numerous awards and grants from different funding sources. He has held various leadership roles in academia and has served on academic committees, led research projects, and supervised many doctoral and master's degree students, among other responsibilities. Moreover, Prof Yahya holds prestigious positions, such as a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) USA and a Professional Engineer certified by the Botswana Engineers Registration Board (ERB). |
| Prof. Carlos B. Westphall Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Carlos Becker Westphall is Full Professor (since 1993) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina - Brazil, where he acts as the leader of the Network and Management Laboratory and also coordinates some projects funded by the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq). Obtained a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1985 and a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 1988, both at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Obtained a D.Sc. degree in Computer Science (Network Management) at the University of Toulouse (Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier), France, in 1991. Editorial board member of periodicals and technical program and/or organizing committee member of conferences. He was the founder of LANOMS. He has contributed to Elsevier as editorial board member of the ''Computer Networks Journal''; to Springer as board of editors and senior technical editor of the ''Journal of Network and Systems Management''. He acted as a local group coordinator in the European MAX/ESPRIT II project which involved the Alcatel- TITN, British Telecom, HP, CSELT, SIRTI and NKT Companies. Best paper of CLEI 2011. Awarded “International Academy, Research, and Industry Association” Fellow (award plaque), in 2011. Paper at IEEE ComSoc Technology News, in 2012. Achievement award – tutorial at WorldComp 2013. Awarded – best paper of ICN 2013. IEEE Communications Society 20 years member (Certificate of Appreciation), in 2014. Certificate of Appreciation - CNSM 2020 Organizing Committee Member, IFP, IEEE, IEEE Communications Society. Outstanding Service Award - 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021), IEEE / ACM. Latin America Top 10.000 Scientists. AD Scientific Index 2021 Version 1., AD Scientific Index Rankings for Scientists |
Technical Program Committees
Prof. Lu Leng, Nanchang Hangkong University, China
Prof. KING-NING Tu, University of California, Los Angeles, US
Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, India
Prof. Anhui Liang, Dean, Institute of Optical Fiber Communication and Bio-optics, Guangdong University of Technology, China
Prof. Yuhua Qian, Dean of Big Data Science and Industry Research Institute of Shanxi University, China
Prof. Jianming Zhu, Dean of the School of Information, Central University of Finance and Economics, China
Prof. Xiaofeng Liao, Dean of the School of Computer Science of Chongqing University, China
Prof. Deyu Li, Dean of School of Computer and Information Technology, Shanxi University, China
Prof. Dengao Li, Dean of the School of Big Data, Taiyuan University of Technology, China
Prof. Lichao Chen, Secretary of the School of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Yinzhang Guo, Vice President of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Zhihua Cui, Associate Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Fuzhong Li , Dean of the School of Software, Shanxi Agricultural University, China
Organizing Committees
Prof. Zhangshu Huang, Yango University, China
Prof. Milan Despotovic, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
Prof. Said Fathy EL-Zoghdy, Menoufia University, Egypt
Prof. Jianmei Zhang, Director of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Changzhi University, China
Prof. Sanhu Wang, Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology, Lvliang University, China
Prof. Xiaoxia Song, Associate Dean of the School of Computer and Network Engineering (Data science), Shanxi Datong University, China
Prof. Chunhong Wang, Director of Department of Computer Science and Technology, Yuncheng University, China
Prof. Anhui Liang, Guangdong University of Technology, China
Prof. Qingshan Zhao, Director of Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xinzhou Teachers University, China
Prof. Shiquan Zhou, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Prof. Xuan Wang, Shanxi Normal University , China
Prof. Huagen Xu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Prof. Wang Zheng, Wuhan University, China
Prof. Haibin Zhang, Xidian University, China
Dr. Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Khasawneh, Al-Madinah International University, Malaysia
Dr. Licheng yan, Nanchang Hangkong University, China
Dr. Pingping Tang, Southwest University of Science and Technology, China
Dr. Jun Huang, Southwest University of Science and Technology, China
Dr. Qingfeng Wang, Southwest University of Science and Technology, China